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Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)

by John Updike

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: alcoholism, humor, liquor

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“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

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“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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